See how NYC’s top architecture firms carved their Halloween pumpkins

As one of the highlights of this year’s Archtober celebration of the built environment, Pumpkitecture 2018 saw 20 of NYC’s top architecture firms once again go gourd to gourd to compete for the Pritzkerpumpkin. Find out who squashed the competition, and see some of this year’s most creative entries, ahead.

Alloy jack-in-the-box jack-o-lantern. Credit: Center for Architecture

The Pritzkerpumpkin goes to…Alloy: Firm members created a jack-in-the-box jack-o-lantern, exploring notions of visibility and presence while emanating sinister smoke plumes.

Credit: Center for Architecture

The People’s Pumpkin /A Pathetic Consolation: PretentiouliciousSITU: SitooOOoooOOOoooOo scared everybody with dehydrated pumpkin strands altered in two phases using a microwave, followed by a heat machine and later formed into a nest-like structure inspired by Newton’s Cenotaph.

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A Pathetic Consolation: Hell TechEnnead Architects: Jack-o-Tects took home the Hell Tech prize for their hellish, Hellraiser-esque automated drawing machine.

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A Pathetic Consolation: Miserable MessRafael Viñoly Architects: rough-hell sin-ñoly architects took home the Miserable Mess prize for A Risk in Resin, their valiant (but unsuccessful) attempt to create a resin-cast pumpkin.

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A Pathetic Consolation: Most PoeticPractice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU: Practice for Anarchy and Upheavel | OW recited sweet poetry in honor of Di-vine, their ode to the life-giving pumpkin vine.

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A Pathetic Consolation: Most ProfoundDavis Brody Bond: Demons Bones Blood took home the Most Profound prize for Atlas Hugged, a humble call, in pumpkin form, for global tolerance and acceptance.

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A Pathetic Consolation: The TotemWeiss/Manfredi: frights/manfreaky took home The Totem prize for their Inception-inspired pumpkin-within-a-pumpkin-within-a-pumpkin.

Credit: (c) Erik Bardin

Credit: (c) Erik Bardin

Contestants keep their eyes on the prize (the gilded, elusive Pritzkerpumpkin). Take a look at more of the contestants’ entries in the gallery below.